Books

New York: Boni and Liveright, 1922. First Edition, Second Printing, 1/1000 Copies. Hardcover. Octavo, 64 pages. In Very Good condition, and lacking scarce dust jacket. Bound in black cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Minor shelf wear. Light sunning to spine, with fraying to cloth at head and tail. Some scuffing to front and rear covers. Age toning to interior pages. Shelved in Case 0. First Edition, Second Printing, though stated as "Second Edition" on copyright page. 1 of 1,000 copies, though this copy is unnumbered. 1373990. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

The Waste Land is a 434-line modernist poem by T.S. Eliot, first published in 1922. It is one of the most important poems of the 20th century.